Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Anthony Downs

Born: November 21, 1930
Died: October 2, 2021 (aged 90)
Bio: Anthony Downs was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Known for:
- An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957)
- Inside bureaucracy (1964)
- Still Stuck in Traffic (2004)
- New visions for metropolitan America (1994)